Alabama head football coach Kalen DeBoer kept many of the recruits Nick Saban brought to Tuscaloosa during the initial NIL years from 2021 to 2023. Class of 2020 DL Tim Smith got a fifth season due to COVID-19 affecting his freshman year,

The Alabama football standard was clear in the Nick Saban era. A year after Saban retired, how does it look under Kalen DeBoer?

The Alabama Crimson Tide finished the 2024 season with a 9-4 record. That's a pretty good season for most SEC programs, but that's not the standard at Alabama (thanks to Nick Saban's brilliance). Crimson Tide head coach Kalen DeBoer,